My oldest daughter sleeps with about 30 stuffed animals. I’m not exaggerating. This is an accurate approximation give or take one or two. I was going to write 300 because I’m prone to exaggeration and hyperbole, but for this I want to paint an accurate picture. Thirty freaking stuffed animals in her tiny twin bed [...]
My girls were born climbers. As soon as they could they were climbing and pulling themselves up on things – me, the couch, a chair, a coffee table – you get the idea. Before they were two years old they had climbed up things they should not have been able to. Like very big, high [...]
Zeta asked me a question tonight and it got me thinking about she and I. She wanted to know if when I was 6 and 2/4 — Don’t you love that? 2/4! Ha! I keep telling her that 2/4 is 1/2, but she doesn’t care. Her sister is 5 1/4 and I am certain this [...]
I recently found myself needing to have “the talk” with my daughter. Yes, that talk. The Sex Talk. Let me remind you she’s six. OK, 6.5. That 1/2 means a lot to her so I’ll through it in there. The point is, she’s young. She’s in the first grade.
It freaked me out when I [...]
When I first heard that a woman had drown her five kids in the bathtub, I was horrified. How could anyone do that to little children? Much less their own mother? Of course, I didn’t have kids at the time. Now I do, and I get it. Before you have children [...]
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